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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1943
Page
6
The notice lists scrap metal iron scrap rubber prepared tin cans for grocers restaurants and bottlers to collect or supply waste fats to grocers hosiery items to stores and waste paper to scrap dealers. It reads like a community collection or recycling guidance with items grouped for delivery or sale.
Washington June 16 It is about time we devote more than a nod to Secretary of the Interior Harold L Ickes once a focal point of the New Deal His wartime role has grown in weight as he pushes for hydro power helium policy and coal strike mediation He seeks to keep the wheels turning and coal flowing amid war needs.
A fragment notes severe penalties in medieval Persia for chess losses, describing the loser lopping off a finger or arm and applying ointment to cauterize the wound, illustrating brutal stakes in the game.
May weather boosts Virginia fruit and hay crops while oats and barley face low yields. Virginia peach prospects are the smallest since 1921 with several counties nearly a failure. National forecasts show US peach output 32 percent below last year and dairy, egg, and chick production hitting record or near record levels.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hours ending 8 a m at 3.30 inches, June to date 8.96 inches, year to date 19.80 inches. Average annual rainfall for 36 years is 36.11 inches with monthly averages listed from January to December. Statistics courtesy of the Winchester Search Laboratory.
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